13-year-old Beneficiary Applauds Improved Life
13-year-old beneficiary applauds GO! Funding which improves her life greatly at Lueth-wek
By Thiik-awet
AWEIL, SOUTH SUDAN
Meet Rebecca Aluel Deng, a 13-year-old girl whose life has been greatly altered by Global Orphan Relief / Christ Mission to the World partnership:
Rebecca studies at Lueth-wek, a Christ Mission to the World Centre for vulnerable children in South Sudan who testifies of being transformed by GO! Feeding school programme. She was fortunate to be admitted to this school three years ago. She recalls the hardships she underwent at village’s hard life of hustling and became a regular school-goer where she enjoys food and shorten distance to travel with school next to her village.
Aluel, 13 was born to poor parents who could hardly afford daily meals for her and her other seven siblings as life had been tough on them.
According to her, she says her parents mainly survived them on the trees’ leaves for years because they lacked other sources of income in their family as life hardened on them.
Because both parents are illiterate, they couldn’t know the sources of daily sustainability to the family and were always left confused of what to survive on because of the demanding economic condition in South Sudan. Rebecca and other two younger siblings have greatly benefited from GO! School meals project, after they were blessed to get admitted at this nearby school with free feeding.
“I, my siblings and other neighborhood children are blessed with this school to be located within our reach. I don’t really know how it would look like if this school was not located nearby. We are blessed for many things and we can always praise the Living God for doing wonders for us and particularly within our family.”
Rebecca explains how she and her siblings became to be part of this school. She used to travel 200km from her village with other schoolmates as earlier as at every 5 or 4 am to go school two times a week but still there was no feeding at that far-away school. They couldn’t give up. She now says their prayers were heard and that’s why their village is blessed to have the Lueth-wek School sponsored by Global Orphan Relief organization.
Despite being previously known for her “thin/slim and unhygienic well-being” from her childhood, due to their poor family background, Rebecca now has this story to testify to people of what GO! funding has done in her life.
She says God has done miracles to the people of South Sudan especially the villages where GO! sponsored schools exist and these efforts are being widely used to transform lives of vulnerable kids. She says she is blessed and grateful for the life transformation and believes she is a blessed person through Christ.
Like many other beneficiaries, she says the school meals program has given her a huge life impact that she has benefited by attending school more often, receiving much needed nutrition, and having hope for the first time.
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In the first six months of 2021 we have experienced a dramatic increase in the number of children coming to our partner schools to receive meals; more than a 1,000 new children in this time.
In the first six months of this year we have provided an estimated 324,540 meals impacting 3,162 children. The scale of this initiative has grown by more than 3x when compared to 2020 when we served just an estimated 104,440 meals to 852 vulnerable children.
Plans for 2021 is to provide nutrition to more vulnerable children in the Aweil area. In cooperation with multiple partners (Kids for the Kingdom & Christ Mission to the World), we have invested in these school sites with additional infrastructure over the last 6-months by investing $109,200 during this time for kitchens, storerooms, and latrines. We have taken this a step further this month (July 2021) and Kids for the Kingdom has agreed to support the vulnerable children while we focus on the orphaned children that are in need. More on our 2021 Recalibration later this month when I post how our ministry, scale and scope, has changed, why we made these changes, and our longer-term outlook for partnership in South Sudan to serve orphaned children. Stay tuned… Ultimately, more children will receive meals, with larger portions, and the Kingdom of God will continue to advance in South Sudan!
Since 2016 we have served these precious children with our partner Christ Mission to the World who are the hands and feet on the ground, and we are not joined by Kids for the Kingdom so that we may even bless more children in need.
A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12
You may send support or other correspondence to Global Orphan Relief, 16352 Prairie Farm Cir, Parker, CO 80134 or you may give also give electronically to support the feeding of vulnerable children at 2021 South Sudan Nutrition.
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